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12.06.89

by matttbastard

Today isn’t about pro or anti coalition rallies, the respective leadership abilities of Stephane Dion vs. Stephen Harper, partisanship, or unelected heads of state. Nor is it about Western alienation, Quebec separatism, parliamentary democracy, or regional polarization. Today isn’t even about the stumbling global economy (although God knows the latest job numbers are hard to put out of mind for long).

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I wrote about the massacre myself. What I am shocked is that as I make the rounds on blogs today, so few have chosen to write anything about this. I know that it happened in the great white north some 19 years ago but the lives of 14 women should be remembered. I think this speaks very largely to the US bent in feminism. If it happens outside of the borders of the red, white and blue it seems that it is unimportant. I will never forget these women.

What I am shocked is that as I make the rounds on blogs today, so few have chosen to write anything about this.

The events in Ottawa, along with the economy, seem to be distracting both the public and the media (hence my open letter to the Rally for Canada crew earlier this week re: the unfortunate timing of their cross-country protest effort).